SYNLawn Santa Cruz Green Building & LEED® Certification

SYNLawn® Santa Cruz is green on top, in the middle and even underneath. Beyond the color, SYNLawn® Santa Cruz goes a long way towards better environmental sustainability which makes it truly “green.” We take measurable steps in providing products that have an extended lifespan, reduce your carbon footprint, conserve water, and use renewable and recycled materials in manufacturing.

Water Efficient Landscaping

As you may be aware, 70% of the Earth’s surface is made of water. However, less than 1% of the world’s water is available freshwater for human consumption. In other words, all of the water used in the home comes from the 1% available freshwater. Now think about this. Did you know that in most homes across the country 50-70% of the household water consumption is used for outdoor irrigation? Here is another fact. To keep lawns green, it takes approximately 685 gallons of water to apply 1-inch of water over 1,000 square feet of lawn annually. That is a tremendous burden on the world’s freshwater supply just to keep the lawn green. How can you make a difference? Replace your natural lawn with SYNLawn® Santa Cruz to eliminate up to 70% of your water consumption. The choice to switch to SYNLawn® Santa Cruz not only gives you a beautiful looking lawn year round without the maintenance, it could also help save our planet.

Manufactured with Recycled and Renewable Resources

Thanks to our exclusive EnviroLoc™ Backing System, SYNLawn Santa Cruz’s backing is approximately 60-70% green by weight. The EnviroLoc™ System is an engineered component system which contributes to environmental sustainability. The first component is the primary backing which helps extend the product life cycle by using 10% less material that is stronger and has superior dimensional stability compared to traditional artificial grasses. Product lifespan is further extended on the face by incorporating nylon 6 in the fibers adding up to 50% longer life. The second component is the secondary backing which incorporates BioCel™ technology. BioCel™ uses an environmentally-sensitive polyurethane that replaces a large portion of the petroleum-based polymers with soybean oil (renewable resources) and adds Celceram™ (recycled product of coal combustion) to further strength and greater stability.

Green Building and LEED® Certification

Using SYNLawn® Santa Cruz helps environmentally conscience builders and specifiers with LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) project certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Using SYNLawn® Santa Cruz with EnviroLoc™ can contribute LEED® points in the areas of Water Efficient Landscaping, Recycled Content, Rapidly Renewable Material and Innovation in Design.